Blending Flash Fiction & Art - NUNUM

NUNUM Fall 2018 Volume 1 Issue 3 is Live

9/21/2018

NUNUM Fall 2018 has left the alter and is already busy learning about the reality of parents, family and relationships. Come on in and meet Alexis, Anay, Catherine, John, Karen and Russell to find out how they blended it all into a life for our newlywed.

We couldn't be happier with this issue. Wicked writing, cool art and our first interview. That's right Jon Fox sat down and let us pry a few painting secrets out of him. We also launched our clothing brand with this issue, so check out this week's gear in the shop.

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Jon's Interview

Dispatch from the Garbage Dump: On Getting an MFA by Zoe Ballering

9/5/2018

After I avoided hawking copper pots at Costco for eleven hours a day, I found my dream job as the sole, untrained receptionist at a garbage processing facility run by taciturn blue-collar men. As I pondered a list of prohibited items including hot ashes and dead animals, musing on the fact that I had the authority to accept cold ashes but not live animals, I finally admitted that my degree in creative writing would likely never make me a financially stable and deeply lauded author. And then I laughed at myself and felt happy again.

Raising the Stakes in Flash Fiction by Melanie Faith

8/30/2018

My writing students are on their last week of the semester. Usually, this would be cause for great celebration, but it so happens that in this last week the university requires a final project that is the culmination of our entire course. The projects are generally 10-12 pages long and worth many more points than their weekly papers. My students are busy applying all of the reading, research, discussions, and suggestions from their practice (read: homework exercises) from the past ten weeks, so understandably I’ve been answering many messages filled with questions and concerns.

To say that this is a fraught week for all of us is an understatement.

Jon Fox's Interview with NUNUM

8/23/2018

JON FOX is an artist out of Moncton, NB in Canada. Classically trained at NSCAD in Halifax, Jon’s worked in photo, film and ink but has always been a painter in our eyes. He’s had exhibitions, both solo and group all across Canada and also farther afield in Portugal, America and Japan. But now he’s back in Moncton and will have a new show opening up at the Apple Gallery tonight. (August 23, 2018).
NUNUM was lucky enough to get a sit down with Jon recently and we did our best to find out what’s behind some of things one of Canada’s most important painters does with canvas and colour.

Duotrope Interview with NUNUM

8/17/2018

So happy about our interview with Duotrope that it sent us dancing.

Q: Describe what you publish in 25 characters or less.
A: visual flash fiction art

Q: What other current publications (or publishers) do you admire most?

Flash Fiction - Belle of the Ball

8/9/2018

Flash fiction is the belle of the ball, the flavour of the moment, the soup of the day and apparently well on its way to mainstream acceptance as a separate and unique form of writing. Recent articles in mainstream publications like O Magazine and MacLean’s had articles and pieces of flash as well, most literary journals now have separate submission categories for flash submissions and there are more and more flash only journals out there now.

'Doting Diana 4' - 'Beauty and Stress 2' - 'Art of the DJ 2' by Dr. Ernest Williamson III

8/4/2018

'Doting Diana 4' by Dr. Ernest Williamson III was the perfect pairing with CK Rose's story 'A New Benchmark' and together the two of them formed the standard for NUNUM's Summer issue. If you missed it then, no worries because we've reprinted it below. And for those of you who've already memorized it, scroll down and enjoy 'Art of the DJ 2' and 'Beauty and Stress 2', two more canvases Ernest has been kind enough to share with us.

The Phosphors by Reggie Davis

7/27/2018

'The Phosphors' is a series of optical aberrations of video images Reggie Davis has crafted from distorted phosphorescent matrix patterns he found on CRT TV screens. NUNUM couldn’t have been happier when Reggie decided to share three pieces from this series with us.

So What If You Don't Get Anywhere In A Flash by Amie E. Reilly

7/22/2018

A story has no beginning or end; arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead. -Graham Greene, The End of the Affair (1951)

I was cleaning a winter’s worth of debris from the garden beneath my kitchen window, and as I scooped away a pile of withered leaves from between some stones, a garter snake slithered over my hand. It’s possible that I let out a little scream, despite knowing that I was the one who had invaded its space and not the other way around.

Four Summer Time Flash Fiction Contests

7/16/2018

Summer is here and hopefully that means you’ll have a little time to get your heels off the ground and into the water. So while your ice cream is melting and someone else is out buying the beer think about popping off your newest flash fiction gem to one of these primed for summer flash fiction contests.